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Prize announcement dates
The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 7–14 October. All of the announcements will be streamed live at nobelprize.org. The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2024 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday, 7 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliestThe Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet,…
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegian parliament). The Norwegian Nobel Committee 2024 Members Jørgen Watne Frydnes (Chair) Asle Toje (Vice Chair) Anne Enger Kristin Clemet Gry Larsen Olav Njølstad (Secretary)Professor According to the rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee is…
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The Nobel Committee for Physics
Nominations
The Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the selection of candidates for the Physics Prize from the names submitted for consideration by qualified nominators, who have been invited through formal letters. Nobel Committee for Physics 2021 Members David Haviland Professor of Nanostructure Physics Mats Larsson Professor of…
moreThe Nobel Prize amounts
On 27 November 1895, a year before his death, Alfred Nobel signed the famous will which would implement some of the goals to which he had devoted so much of his life. Nobel stipulated in his will that most of his estate, more than SEK 31 million (today approximately SEK 1,794 million) should be converted…
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A unique gold medal
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“While the invading forces marched in the streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving Laue’s and also James Franck’s medals.” Since 1901, the Nobel Prize medals have been part of many remarkable stories. Three Nobel Prize medals had to be dissolved in Denmark to keep them hidden from the Nazis. Two Nobel Prize medals were…
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A work of art in the form of a diploma
Each Nobel Prize diploma is a unique work of art where the design is decided by the prize-awarding bodies. The literature diploma is written on parchment, i.e. specially treated leather, using largely the same technique as those of medieval book illustrators. The diplomas given to the other laureates are produced on specially ordered handmade paper.…
moreNobel Prize laureates and students meet in Lindau
Every year, students from different countries and Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry or Physiology or Medicine are invited to Lindau in the south of Germany. The meetings rotate by discipline each year. The idea is to let students with interest in science and research meet Nobel Laureates and to let Nobel Laureates meet students informally.…
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